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American Airlines on Thursday announced plans for new daily nonstop service between Miami International Airport and Malpensa Airport in Milan, Italy beginning Nov. 21. "As the home to a growing Italian population and one of the world's key fashion industry markets, Miami continues to be a preferred destination for travel from Milan," said Marilyn DeVoe, American's Vice President - Miami, in a statement. "This new route enhances our expanding global network and provides our European customers a gateway to many Caribbean and Latin America destinations from our Miami hub." Customers can book travel on the new route starting June 2. The flight from...

WASHINGTON -- Anybody in Florida who makes a living from tourism stands to gain from a surge of foreign visitors – and their spending money – if an immigration bill passed by the U.S. Senate last week becomes law.
Little-noticed provisions would make...

A trusted traveler program that eases long lines at security checkpoints is coming to Palm Beach International Airport by the end of the year.
Called TSA PreCheck and overseen by the Transportation Security Administration, the program allows...

Last week: Last week we saw Tri-Rail release numbers showing that the Boca Raton Station on Yamato Road is the busiest of the 17 Tri-Rail stations in the tri-county region. The location’s proximity to Florida Atlantic University and the various office...

Last week: As reported by the Sun Sentinel, for the second straight year no school will be permitted to drop more than one letter grade when the State Department of Education releases its report card on schools. The Florida Board of Education took the...

Senator Maria Sachs is a practicing attorney specializing in constitutional law. She has maintained her private practice for the last 20 years and is admitted to the bars of California and Florida. She graduated from the University of Maryland where she...

President Barack Obama on Friday opened his relationship with Chinese President Hu Jintao, promising cooperation in a phone call that broadly covered sensitive trade issues, the global financial crisis and the North Korean nuclear threat.
Both leaders...

Try singing the McDonald's song to the tune of Happy Birthday: Two all beef pat-ties. Special sauce, let-tuce cheese. Pi-ickles onionsssss. On a sesame seed bun.
On April 15, 1955, Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Ill. The...

The University of Maryland University College has long been at the forefront of online continuing education and job training for its mostly adult student body, so a recent proposal by UMUC President Javier Miyares to tie the school's future more closely...

TOKYO/DETROIT (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co 7267.T and other Japanese automakers on Monday recalled almost 3 million cars with potentially explosive air bags supplied by Takata Corp 7312.T, bringing the total recall so far to about 10.5 million vehicles over...

Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson is selling 50% of his stake in the yoga wear company to a private equity firm for a hefty $845 million.
The deal will give Advent International control of nearly 14% of outstanding shares in Lululemon, the...

The former president of ESPN has joined Under Armour's board of directors, the Baltimore-based sports apparel company said Tuesday.
George W. Bodenheimer served as ESPN's longest tenured president from 1998 to 2012, leading the sports network to...

It's finally happening.
After years of putting up with blackout dates, broken promises and bait-and-switch games, American travelers — particularly air travelers — are saying "Enough!"
They're refusing to play the loyalty-program game,...

The U.S. economy’s better-than-expected expansion in the second quarter fueled optimism that growth was back on an upward trajectory, allaying fears that the recovery might have been derailed during a sharp winter slowdown.
“An inflection point in the...

Metro Chicago lags behind many counterparts nationwide in the recovery of its manufacturing sector as well as the exports it fuels, a serious deficit as the city reaches for a bigger share of global economic activity.
While the 14-county tri-state area...

NBCUniversal is shaking up the ranks of its movie studio, with longtime head Ron Meyer transitioning into a corporate advisory role.
In a surprise move, Jeff Shell, a longtime Comcast Corp. television executive who spent the last two years in London,...

In a dramatic shake-up that took Hollywood by surprise, NBCUniversal has shuffled its executive ranks by forcing out film Chairman Adam Fogelson and shifting Universal Studios President Ron Meyer — the industry's longest-serving studio chief — to an...

Even the most oblivious of moviegoers will be well aware of "Oblivion" this weekend, as the Tom Cruise flick is set to claim No. 1 at the box office.
The "Mission: Impossible" actor's latest film, the only picture debuting...

Warner Bros. Chief Executive Kevin Tsujihara has begun building his own team at the Burbank entertainment company, distributing power among a handful of key executives who have long toiled in the trenches.
On Wednesday, Tsujihara announced a new...

Imagine, for a moment, what might happen if science succeeds in eradicating disease and people live far longer than they do today.
Do we toast to the extra years spent embracing loved ones and traveling the planet (maybe other planets?) and learning...